Building a web-features taxonomy for structuring web design guidelines

Abstract

This paper proposes a framework for structuring web design guidelines that incorporates the hierarchies of web features and their semantic relationships with HTML and CSS. It is argued that this approach will be synchronous with the mental model of web designers, thus making the guidelines more usable. In addition, this approach embraces both external and internal aspects of web design, so there is little compromise on the coverage of web design issues. An experiment was conducted to compare the relative effectiveness of the proposed framework with other guideline structures (e.g., principle-oriented and a mixture of principle and feature-oriented). There was evidence that the principle-oriented guidelines performed worse than the other structures, but the analyses failed to establish that the proposed framework as the most effective. The experiment showed promising results but it suffered from small sample size. In spite of this, it is believed that the proposed taxonomy and framework has laid the groundwork for fiture research.

A Conceptual Model on Websites Design Features for Self-Management of Chronic-Diseases Patients

“…Web-based self-management is found to be effective in improving health outcome [21] and its design requires additional attention compare to normal websites [22]. Website features are typical elements of a websites which are visible to users [23] and can drive visitors to the websites [24]. Appropriate websites features will help in promoting positive experiences to users, improve organizations digital footprint and increase visitors engagements to the websites [25].…”